WDW In Everyday Speech

[JimmyV]

What words, ideas or concepts that originated in WDW (or DLR) have crept into your everyday language? For example, in our family, when we want to describe a really heavy rain storm, it is always referred to as "Tiki Room Rain". We instantly know what is meant. And no matter what state we are in, if we are approaching a toll booth and there is a lane that accepts transponders, it is always referred to as the Fast Pass Lane. How about you?

 

[Mrs. Ciz]

I find my self saying "rope drop" when I mean we'll get there when it opens. "There" could be the library, the grocery store, the mall, whatever! And those places certainly don't have rope drop!

 

[walker0829]

DS4 calls everything that goes around his wrist a magic band. "It(whatever is around his wrist)" gives him special powers.

 

[godders]

Any journey that doesn't quite go to plan and/or involves driving through floods invariably becomes "catastrophe canyon" and often includes a jungle cruise/David Attenborough type narration

 

[nilla]

I asked my wife to make ADRs for a local sushi restaurant a few days before Valentine's Day.

I refer to all theme park employees as "Cast Members".

When something falls over or off of something, it's going "over the falls".

 

[JimmyV]

I find my self saying "rope drop" when I mean we'll get there when it opens. "There" could be the library, the grocery store, the mall, whatever! And those places certainly don't have rope drop!

Yes. Us too.

 

[soniam]

We say rope drop to mean opening for pretty much anything. DH was referring to the Florida Sunpass for the toll roads as the fastpass. Cast member refers to employees at theme parks, and I have started to use it to refer to employees at some big stores, like Walmart I have also started using DIS board abbreviations, like DH, when I email and text QS refers to any fast food restaurant, especially the ones at the airport. Same goes for TS.

 

[Hannahinwonderland]

No matter where I work now, I use the Disney Point. Customers are always Guests.

I've also done the rope drop thing. "Mom, let's hurry and get in the car so we don't miss rope drop". We are headed to the grocery store at opening. LOL.

I basically use my Jungle Cruise narration skills everyday. Everything is the backside of water.

 

[yeheyprincex2]

I find my self saying "rope drop" when I mean we'll get there when it opens. "There" could be the library, the grocery store, the mall, whatever! And those places certainly don't have rope drop!

We also do this

 

[Disneylover99]

I was meeting friends for dinner and I asked if anyone had made an ADR. Nobody knew what I was talking about.

 

[Dancemomof3]

Well, no WDW speech in my every day life but for about a week after we got back from our 2014 trip I tried waving my wrist in front of everything to get it to work. The look on my dd's face was priceless when she asked me why I was waving my wrist under the car ignition instead of turning the key. Darn magic bands, lol

 

[Disneylover99]

When I'm frazzled and sitting in traffic, my son often turns to me and says, (in his most soothing voice) "Relax. You'll be home soon."

 

[rastahomie]

Every now and then, out of nowhere, either my wife and I will say, for no reason at all, "Please stand clear of the doors. Por favor mantenganse alejado de las puertas."

 

[squeezle]

I don't have anything to add, but I love all of these. And I now feel the need to introduce DisneySpeak into my daily life.

 

[gtpoohbear]

We tend to refer to anything that helps us get ahead of a crowd or line as a FastPass. (I thought it was funny at the airport a few months ago when a guy working at security referred to the pre-check lines as the FP line, lol!)

And I often have to stop myself from saying ADR when talking about a normal dinner reservation.

 

[GEM]

Ok...not offically Disney-speak...but something we overheard at Disney. In January we were on a bus to Epcot with a lovely British family that was evidently running late for a dinner reservation. They were very worried about it and talking about how they were really going to have to "leg it" if they wanted to make it on time. When they got off the bus, they were off and running, with the dad in the lead yelling back over his shoulder to the rest o them, "Leg it! Leg it!" We thought it was hysterical for some reason, and now that's what we say when we have to hurry or we need someone else to hurry. "Leg it!" And, of course, we always say it with a proper British accent.

 

[msk]

When a small child melted down one afternoon, I heard a cast member refer to the "magical melt down hour". Now if we see a child melting down in Wal Mart or the grocery store, we refer to the "magical melt down hour".

 

[orna14]

No matter where we are or what the context of the situation is, if there is a warning sign that features anything related to a human body being crossed it, we always turn it into a 'no bad dancing' joke. Always.

 

[squeezle]

Oh, I remembered something!!

The first time I went to WDW they played Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah everywhere... in the parks, in the resorts, at Downtown Disney...everywhere. By the end of the week, we started to get exhausted and referred to it as being "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah-Dead". So now when I get worn out or very fatigued, I am "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah-Dead".

 

[TheFloatingBear]

Love these! Not official Disney-speak, but on our first trip with the kids, we had a late diner at Kona café. There was a thunderstorm, so the parks were closed, but as we were eating our dessert - chocolate fondue - the clouds cleared and the parks re-opened. It was a little late - only about an hour and a half before park close, so we debated if it was worth it to go back. We decided to Fon - do it! There was no one in the parks and we just walked on rides and had a blast!

Now whenever we do something spontaneous we say we are fon -doing it, and we think we are hilarious!